For most people, the smallest Boeing aircraft they've encountered is ... except for the MD-95 (which was renamed as the ...

Boeing offered to finance the 717 to incentivize airlines to purchase it, as no further orders were coming in, and finance companies saw it as a niche aircraft ... MD-95 and MD-11 would continue ...

But until recently, I'd never set foot on a Boeing 717, a smaller aircraft that Boeing inherited when it bought McDonnell Douglas in 1995 for $13 billion. I tend to like really small jets ...